Improvement in wire fences



DARLINGTON.

Wire Fences Patented Aug. 11, 11874.

- INVENTOR WITNESSES THE GRAPHIC CILPHTOLITHJSSr 4| PARK PLACLMK,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HILLBOBN DARLINGTON, OF CONCORD TOWNSHIP, DELAWARE COUNTY, PA.

IMPROVEMENT lN WIRE FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,024, dated August11, 1874; application filed July 8, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HILLBORN DARLINGTON, M. D., of Concord township, inthe county of Delaware and in the State of Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Making Barwaysin Wire Fences,also in attaching wires wherever they are required to be kept tight andregulated to suit expansion and contraction; and do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consistsin the mode of connecting andtightening the wires of wire fences, and making bars or gaps in thesame, as will be described.

In the annexed figure, which is a perspective of my invention, Arepresents the fenceposts, through which pass the wires B B. Loops areformed in the ends of the wires to be connected. The loops of one set ofwires are caught into an eye in a lever, 0, near its center. This leverhas teeth or notches formed on it near one end and a portion of itslength,

and at the other end is made a hook, as seen at d. The lever beingconnected to one set of the wires, the loops of the other set are caughtover the teeth or in the notches, as seen at c. a

The lever is then pressed down until its hook 01 will catch upon thewire B, and thus hold it in position. By looping the wires nearer to theend of lever C a longer gap can be closed up.

By the use of suitable intermediate wires gaps or bars can be made andclosed up quickly, and the wires made perfectly tight or loosened in amoment of. time.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A fence-wire looped at intervals and stretched by means of the hookedand ratcheted lever permanently united therewith, substantially as shownand described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this11th day of May, 1874.

HILLBORN DARLTNGTON, M. D.

Witnesses:

F. WOIRRLOW, MARY P. WOIRRLOW.

